What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Original as far as I know.

Yeah, plastic is cheap and easy to work with, but it doesn't have the life cycle of metal.


Did you ever find a good source for new, legitimate injectors?

 

I did.. RockAuto. Intermotor brand seems to be reboxed OEM. I think @Rachelsdaddy bought a set for his 4-cyl. The ones I bought from RockAuto for my V6 have been perfect.

You know I got burned on some counterfeits that I bought from Amazon? The pintle caps started melting into intake manifold after about 1,000 miles. Gas started leaking all over the intake manifold. It could have been a bad fire.

 

Yep, I remember that, that's why I asked


Good to know, I've already got another list going for rockauto on this project.


Thanks!

 

Mounting some lights

 

Fluid filmed the new frame.

 

Had some credit at oreilleys and bought a denso air fuel sensor for my Tacoma , no check engine but I’m about to hit 200k miles and wouldn’t hurt to replace it , maybe some mpg gains who knows , original one doesn’t look as bad as you would think for 200k miles

 

I’ve got to do the o2 sensors in mine as well. I have a code for one and the truck has 424k miles so..... but I also wanna do an exhaust but MPGs are more important to me so I’m waiting

 

What exploded there?

 

Nothing. Just a leaky oil pressure sender I think. Also, leaky valve cover.

 

Oh okay, my AC compressor what the bed and painted that spot once haha

 

Mounted some 35" Wildpeak At3 on steelies today these babies are tall lol

 

Save it

 

Got the rear four link more or less done on my cheap solid axle project. Got to work on front now, but moving, may be a while

 

If anyone has a sec, could you please measure the gap between the bed and the cab?

 

I got about an inch and a quarter

 

I just went out and measured mine, hopefully I just mounted it a bit crooked, one side is 7/8" and the other is 1-1/8.

 

Thanks fellas! I have another report of 1". I'm at 3/4 and for some strange reason I can't get the passenger side any bigger than 3/4".

 

It's probably one of those things that slightly differed for each truck from the factory like the rear wheels being more or less slightly off center in the wheel wells

As long as it's even on both sides would be my main concern

 

The mount holes are enlarged in the frame so there is a decent amount of adjustment. Wonder if it's the difference between leaf springs centering the bed and not.